High Strangeness
To their eternal horror, they were confronted by a horrific-looking beast standing at a distance of around fifty feet and staring directly at them. It was humanoid in shape, beaked, and around five feet in height. It had large bat-style wings that extended to a combined length of around eleven feet, and talons instead of toes. And its head was crested. As for its color, it was black and shiny, almost wet-like. It wasn't a local.
It's interesting - and probably not coincidental - to note that a few days earlier a man by the name of Juan Acuqa contacted police to tell them of his trauma-filled, late night encounter with a pair of strange animals in the Chilean town of Parral. "They were both dog-faced and had wings," Acuqa told the responding officers. And it wasn't just a sighting that Acuqa had: as he walked home, the monsters attacked him out of the sky and out of the blue, something which forced Acuqa to leap into a nearby canal to try and shake them off. Fortunately, it worked; although, he was briefly hospitalized for gashes inflicted by the flying, nightmarish things.
Around a month or so later, what were very possibly the same two creatures - along with another pair - were seen by the entire Abbett family, as they drove through Chile's Pampa Acha region. Such was the sheer weirdness of the appearance of the flying things, the family could only describe them as "dog-faced kangaroos" and as "gargoyles." Thankfully, the family was not attacked and the creatures swept by, above the road, with barely a glance in their direction. It was, to be sure, a most lucky escape.
It should also be noted that when the details of the 2003 wave in Chile became publicly known, more than a few investigators of strange creatures and paranormal activity suggested that Puerto Rico's infamous Chupacabra was clearly on the move and had made its way to Chile. It's not an unreasonable thing to muse upon. After all, some of the initial reports of the Chupacabra - and particularly those seen in the island's massive El Yunque rainforest - described seeing animals that had monkey-like bodies, that hopped like kangaroos, and which had large, leathery wings.
Of course, no-one was able to offer a viable explanation for how the Chupacabra had made it from Puerto Rico to Chile. The fact remains, however, that the Chilean monsters and those of Puerto Rico were astonishingly similar in appearance.
Reader Comments
"Fly, Fly my Pretties!"*
R.C.
*I just looked it up and was not surprised to find another victim of what should be called the "BerhenSTAIN Bears Effect." (I guess that she now says fly fly, with no 'my pretties". Well we all know she used that phrase 'my pretties'... who did she use it to describe? her Flying Monkeys, and now we're told it's just our bad recollection. wrong. It's a time dimensional shift test likely to deteraApparently another loss to the intentionallly misnamed/malnamed Mandela effect.
Should be called BerhenSTAIN Bears Effect.
Mandela was confused by ill informed idiots in the West with Steven Biko, who died in prison. In polls, it's always the least erroneous result (i.e. where the most people guess he correctly didn't die.) So why is the phenomenon named for its weakest example? (When teachers hear about BehrenSTAIN they uniformly say, I'll go look at my books in my class I've had for years - and there they have changed! Who would buy a book called Berhen STAIN Bears? Trademarks and copyrights are a billion dollar business.)
It's a test program. Find the frolks behind the naming of it as Mandela effect, (which is clearly a result of idiot westerners having bad memories about world affairs, etc) and you'll understand the Mandela/ Biko confusion.
But explain those changed titles on those books. Can't do. Cognitive dissonance is dissolved by the confrontation with reality of some supranaturall event.
R.C.
(Bye bye Roger, thanks)
Berenstain and others, I don't see a problem either. I might be the brainwashed one but I doubt it.
Could it be that there are still Pterosaurs among us ? Leathery wings??? Monkey like bodies???